The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 116

And what should they run away for, every one of them, so that nothing more was over heard or seen of them, from the hour that they were set on guard beside the princess’s chest?

Who acts: hour · What happens: run away, hear, see, set · To what, where: nothing, king, guard

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 run	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 run	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 away	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 heard	mark
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 heard	nsubj:pass
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 nothing	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux:pass
19	over	over	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 run	parataxis
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 heard	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	obl:agent
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hour	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 hour	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hour	det
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obl:unmarked
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 set	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 set	aux:pass
32	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hour	acl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 guard	case
34	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
35	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 chest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 chest	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 princess	case
39	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	should					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past · passive		nothing		hour	over property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	see	participle						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	set	past · passive	the hour not said here	king	guard		beside the princess's chest	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on guard=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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